Hello All,
Monday was the perfect day to go to Beechwood cemetery, here in Ottawa, to shoot some IR film.
Tuesday was the perfect (cloudy) day to develop said film.
Or was it.
At first the negatives looked fine, however once scanned as a digital contact sheet the problem became very apparent.
As can be seen in the attached scans (over sharpened for emphasis) there are hundreds of tiny black spots on the negatives. They appear throughout the roll including the line near the top off the picture. I have developed dozens of rolls of Rollei IR 400 film in DS-1 during the past 3 years with no problems. I have developed thousands of rolls since the late 1960s and have never seen this, ever. The next day I shot a roll of FP4+ in the same camera and developed it using the same technique, tank and chemicals with no sign of any defect.
The camera used was a Fujica GS645W, film Rollei IR 400 developed in home brew DS-1, stop bath and Hypam fixer.
I plan on shooting another roll of IR film the next sunny day in hopes of a better result. In the meantime can anyone offer some insight re what went wrong?
Mike
Monday was the perfect day to go to Beechwood cemetery, here in Ottawa, to shoot some IR film.
Tuesday was the perfect (cloudy) day to develop said film.
Or was it.
At first the negatives looked fine, however once scanned as a digital contact sheet the problem became very apparent.
As can be seen in the attached scans (over sharpened for emphasis) there are hundreds of tiny black spots on the negatives. They appear throughout the roll including the line near the top off the picture. I have developed dozens of rolls of Rollei IR 400 film in DS-1 during the past 3 years with no problems. I have developed thousands of rolls since the late 1960s and have never seen this, ever. The next day I shot a roll of FP4+ in the same camera and developed it using the same technique, tank and chemicals with no sign of any defect.
The camera used was a Fujica GS645W, film Rollei IR 400 developed in home brew DS-1, stop bath and Hypam fixer.
I plan on shooting another roll of IR film the next sunny day in hopes of a better result. In the meantime can anyone offer some insight re what went wrong?
Mike